Harry Reid: "Someone has to get the message to this man that there has to be significant change."

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: With 3 Iraq Reports to Come, Bush Plans Week of Scrutiny
By JIM RUTENBERG and CARL HULSE
Published: December 9, 2006

....After a meeting with Mr. Bush on Friday, several Democratic leaders said they remained skeptical that he was ready to embrace a substantially different approach (in Iraq).

“Someone has to get the message to this man that there has to be significant changes,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the incoming Democratic majority leader. He said Mr. Bush, through his comments and demeanor at the session, indicated that he was not receptive to the report, which Mr. Reid said was not the work of “do-gooders” but was written by “Democrats and Republicans with wide-ranging experience.”

Mr. Reid’s top deputy in the Senate starting next year, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, said Mr. Bush had compared himself in the meeting to President Truman at the start of the cold war. But Mr. Durbin noted that Truman was working with a broad range of NATO allies at the time while keeping negotiations open with the Soviet Union and others — a jab at the administration’s decision so far against including Syria and Iran in talks on Iraq....

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Flexing their own muscles, Democratic leaders promised heightened scrutiny of a forthcoming request from the administration for as much as $150 billion in new emergency spending for the war. The Republican majorities in the House and Senate have generally approved the administration’s previous requests, though they enforced some changes.

Given the increasing number of employees working for private contractors in Iraq and the federal money flowing to Halliburton, a company Mr. Reid described as the “poster child for what is bad about this war,” Mr. Reid said the new Congress would not simply sign off on the request.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/world/middleeast/09prexy.html

[hwmnbn]

1. "to this man".....

bwahahaha :rofl:

Thank you Harry!! The chimp deserves NO respect for what he and his repug party have done to this country.

[babylonsister]

2. Someone needs to read this article to that intellectually incurious

"leader". Give 'em hell, Dems!

[madrchsod]

3. "the man who stole the water will swim for ever more

but he`ll never reach the land on that golden shore
that faint white light will haunt his heart
till he`s only a memory lost in the dark...
dig a hole straight down to hell
till there ain`t no more water in the well,well,well..."

ben harper "well,well,well"

[bigtree]

4. hell to pay

c/o Harry

[MannyGoldstein]

5. It's Called Impeachment, Harry

Try putting down the triangle and impeaching Bush. It's your job.

[Zensea]

6. What if the three groups in the Administration agree with the Iraq Study Group?

Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Bush was still awaiting results of three major reviews on Iraq policy from within the administration before announcing his plans — one at the State Department, one at the Department of Defense and one at the National Security Council.

Wouldn't that be amusing?
Wonder what the chances are?

[mazzarro]

7. The other three reports will never agree with ISG report

One can always bet that at least one of the other forthcoming reports will be altered to allow * the room to maneuver and that solo differing report will be the one they will harp on and echo all over their reich-wing world. It is not as if they have not altered reports before - ha!

[pat_k]

8. Gee, you think Harry? Maybe get that "impeachment program" you were so proud of killing going again.

From http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p11s01-usmb.html

. . .
"One of the things that we were able tocut off pretty quickly is the 'impeach Bush' program," said Reid, referring to some Democratic activists who have that goal. "That was because of two words: Dick Cheney," he joked.
. . .

It's not a joke to us Harry. (And that cheney crap is the oldest and most worn out of all the bogus rationalizations for dereliction. Bush and Cheney are two heads of the same criminal beast. Of course BOTH must be impeached!)

[Vidar]

9. Empty words, Harry.

[Printer70]

10. Yup

"Someone"? Well let's see, you're now Senate Majority Leader. You direct the Senate committees and are, with others, responsible for the communication strategy for the party. Now that we're in the majority, we can't go looking for "someone" to orchestrate change; that someone needs to be us.